FEELING REJECTED

By Rev. Johnny Lee Clary

I saw a bumper sticker the other day and it said, “Be Kind To Nerds: You Will Probably End Up Working For One!” You may not remember the nerd you used to bully and pick on in school, but he will remember you if you ever apply for a job at the corporation that he ends up owning or managing. It is a fact of life that sometimes the nerdiest guy in school ends up becoming a successful corporation president or owner. It is also a fact that the girl who was considered a dork and was picked on by the good looking “mean girls” who ruled the school, will probably end up becoming a high class success and have beauty treatments that transforms her into a model-type beauty queen while the mean girls become chubby soccer moms.

As you go through life you will encounter people that the in-crowd labeled as losers and totally rejected but they end up becoming extremely successful.

Jesus was sort of like that. Psalm 118:22 talks about “the stone that the builders rejected.” That is Jesus. The religious leaders in Jesus’ day labeled him as a troublemaker and even blasphemed his works attributing them to Satan. They would not believe that He was who He said He was and sought to kill Him. But Jesus was the real deal! The church leaders of His day thought He was just an old chunk of coal, but the truth was Jesus was the purest, most sparkling, highest grade diamond that ever existed.

You may have been rejected at school, at home, by a sports team, by someone you liked, by an “in-crowd” or even by a church group. Maybe they made you feel like an old chunk of coal, instead of a sparkling diamond. If that is the case I say to you, don’t give up on God or yourself! God loves you and knows your potential. He will never leave you nor forsake you! He is waiting to mold and shape you into the shiny new diamond that He knows you can be. You have to trust Him!

ARE CHRISTIANS PERMITTED TO JUDGE?

by Rev. Johnny Lee Clary



I can not even begin to guess how many emails I have gotten over the last few months from someone saying to me, “Judge not lest ye be judged also.” That seems to be the only scripture the secular world seems to know. People who do not even respect God enough to go to church and worship Him think they know it all because they heard that there is a scripture that says, “Judge not!”

The question is: “Are Christians permitted to judge?” The answer is not only are Christians permitted to judge according to the Bible, but it also teaches it is our responsibility to judge. No one is above being judged. We are to make judgments everyday. We are to judge our elected officials as to whether or not they are doing the job that they were elected to do and if they are not then we vote them out of office. You are an irresponsible person if you do not make this judgment. As parents we are to judge what type of friends our children are hanging around because friends can be the biggest influence on children especially teenagers. The Bible says “Bad company corrupts good character.” If you do not make judgments on the friends your child is keeping company with then you are one lousy parent. If you are a teacher, it is your job to judge the student to see if he or she is performing up to standard. You would be one sorry teacher if you just passed a kid onto the next level if you didn’t take the time to judge and see if that child actually learned what he was supposed to learn. As an employer, you have to make a judgment on who to hire or fire, and who to promote or demote. You would be one lousy boss and would be helping to bring your company to ruin if you hired or promoted someone that wasn’t qualified for the job. I mean you wouldn’t hire a hooked-on-drugs junkie that dropped out of school in the 8th grade and that had been in and out of jail to come in a be your bank’s executive board director would you? You wouldn’t hire some waitress that dropped out of school in the 9th grade and had been waiting tables down at the Dew Drop Inn, to come be your chief surgeon at the hospital to perform brain surgery would you?

What if we didn’t judge the German Concentration Camp guards who carried out the extermination of six million Jews? What if we didn’t judge Ted Bundy when he was on a nationwide killing spree where he claimed to have raped and killed a hundred women? What would you do if society would have said, “Judge not” and let him go on living in society doing whatever he wanted to do?

Two of the biggest responsibilities we have as Christians is to judge influential leaders whether that be in politics or the pulpit.

Luke 12:48 says authority and accountability go hand in hand; the higher the office the higher the accountability. This was practiced in the Bible when you read Duet. 13 where it says the Israelites were commanded to test and to judge their leaders. 1 Thessalonians 5:21-22 Paul says to test and judge all things and hold on to what is judged as good. People quote the “Judge not” scripture which is found in Matthew 7: 1-5. Jesus was counseling followers not to judge someone self-righteously, but then Jesus said in John 7:24 that we are to make a right judgment. There is a difference between self-righteous judgment and making a good clear right judgment. Why if it were not for judging, then how would we ever apply justice? Some punk robs a mom and pop general store, shoots the old couple to death and then goes on a killing spree and kills 7 more people before being arrested by the cops, and someone is going to have the nerve to say we should not judge him? Bullcrap! Thank God for our ability to make a right judgment so we can give this guy the electric chair ands make sure he never kills another human being again. Those of you who disagree and think he should be rehabilitated and turned loose again into society I bet would feel different about judging him if he had shot and killed your mother and father and raped and killed your children. Jesus commanded us to make a right judgment! Remember that God works through people.

Furthermore, in the church we are commanded by Jesus to judge false prophets, whose teachings and behavior lead people astray. Matthew 7:15-20. My gosh, imagine if we didn’t judge a guy like the Rev. Jim Jones of the People’s Temple who led a thousand people to Jonestown, Guyana and made them drink Kool-Aid with cyanide committing mass murder and suicide ? What if we didn’t judge some of those old perverted priests that were molesting altar boys? What if we didn’t judge Ted Haggard who was pasturing a 15,000 member church when it was revealed that he was having homosexual affairs with male prostitutes and just let him keep on pasturing the church? Anthony Venn-Brown used to be a pastor in a large denomination and in charge of Youth Alive working with young boys. He left his wife and kids for another man and is a perverted old creep that tells children “being gay is OK.” Anthony Venn-Brown is an active recruiter for the gay rights movement pushing the homosexual agenda on the little children. What if Australian Christians didn’t judge him? As a parent you need to make right judgments for the safety of your child. I mean was Jim Jones, or is Venn-Brown, or Ted Haggard the type of guy you want your children to be around? If you are a responsible parent not only you would never allow your children to be around these men, but you would never allow these men to preach to you from the pulpit.

Apostle Paul publicly rebuked Hymenaeus and Philetus saying their teachings spread like gangrene in 2 Timothy 2:17-18, and he got up in Peter’s face and rebuked him for hypocrisy in Galatians 2:11-14.

Use your head people! Common sense should prevail! Responsibility is making the right types of judgments! Many years ago doctors determined that the use of tobacco was harmful and causes cancer. The Surgeon General issued warnings that smoking could cause death. At the same token when a cancer is unleashed within the Christian community, we as Christians are required to warn the public. Failure to do so will result in the blood being upon our hands. Ezekiel 3:18

Rev. Johnny Lee Clary is an ordained elder minister in the Church Of God In Christ, the largest African American denomination in the USA. He is one of the leading advocates for racial unity in the United States and has appeared on countless television and radio shows such as The Billy Graham show, Fox News, Morris Cerullo, Oprah, Morton Downey Jr., Rolanda Watts, Geraldo, Sally Jesse Raphael, Jerry Springer, Ricki Lake, Queen Latifah, Montel Williams, Phil Donahue, A&E Investigative Reports, ABC World News Tonight, Bertrice Berry, The Today Show, A Current Affair, The 700 Club, and Kenneth Copeland's TV show. He has also been a regular guest on TBN's Praise The Lord show and has been featured in America's top newspapers and magazines, including a seven page feature story in Charisma magazine in Feb. 2010, April 1999, Moody Magazine, Guidepost Magazine (Sept. 1998), Kenneth Copeland's Believer's Voice of Victory magazine, as well as appearances on TV programs in Australia, England, Holland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, and Wales. He holds the record for the largest crowd ever at Hillsong Brisbane, Australia.

How To Deal With Discouragement

Discouraging Dipsticks

By Rev. Johnny Lee Clary

Rev. Johnny Lee Clary is an ordained elder minister in the Church Of God In Christ, the largest African American denomination in the USA. He is one of the leading advocates for racial unity in the United States and has appeared on countless television and radio shows such as The Billy Graham show, Fox News, Morris Cerullo, Oprah, Morton Downey Jr., Rolanda Watts, Geraldo, Sally Jesse Raphael, Jerry Springer, Ricki Lake, Queen Latifah, Montel Williams, Phil Donahue, A&E Investigative Reports, ABC World News Tonight, Bertrice Berry, The Today Show, A Current Affair, The 700 Club, and Kenneth Copeland's TV show. He has also been a regular guest on TBN's Praise The Lord show and has been featured in America's top newspapers and magazines, including a seven page feature story in Charisma magazine in Feb. 2010, April 1999, Moody Magazine, Guidepost Magazine (Sept. 1998), Kenneth Copeland's Believer's Voice of Victory magazine, as well as appearances on TV programs in Australia, England, Holland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, and Wales. He holds the record for the largest crowd ever at Hillsong Brisbane, Australia.

Most of you have been discouraged by others at least once in your life. Sometimes people can be vicious and cruel and make people feel so discouraged they feel like throwing in the towel. God does not want you discouraged. He wants you encouraged! He is on your side. No where in the Bible does it say, “Therefore brethren go discourage one another.” As a matter of fact it says just the opposite; to go encourage one another. (I Thessalonians 5:11)

Dr. Josef Goebbels, Nazi Germany’s propaganda minister was perhaps Adolph Hitler’s most valuable man. He once said if you repeat a lie often enough people will begin to believe it. That is how he got almost the entire nation of Germany to hate the Jews by telling lies about them. The Bible says Satan is a liar and the father of lies. (John 8:44) He will use people to discourage you because he does not want you to succeed. Why? Because if you succeed in fulfilling God’s calling upon your life then you damage his kingdom of darkness severely.

I think back of what would have happened if I would have believed all of the discouragement that came my way. My step-grandfather was one of the worst. When I was 18 I hit bottom and was trying to pull myself up, but every time I tried he said something in an attempt to knock me back down. I had been living poor without anything since I was 11 years old when my father had died. I was sent away by my mother to go live with my sister who was on drugs and was forced to live poor as she spent all of my inheritance money on dope and an alcoholic boyfriend she let move in to live off of my money. I dropped out of school in my senior year, left the ghetto of East LA out in California, packing up an old 1960 Chevy Impala car I had and traveled back to Oklahoma. When I arrived in Oklahoma I got a job in a service station only making $2.10 an hour but at least I was trying. My car broke down and I needed a ride and asked the step-grandfather if he could come get me. He picked me up after work and he had my little brother in the car with him. I climbed into the back seat and he turned to my little brother and said, “Let Johnny Lee be a lesson to you to stay in school and amount to something so you don’t turn out to be a bum like him, up there rolling around in grease for $2.00 an hour. He will always be a bum and will never amount to anything. At least you will be the good one.” I hung my head in shame. It hurt me to be downgraded and discouraged like that.

Thank God even as a sinner back then that I had enough sense not to listen to that old fart that was married to my grandmother. I got my act together, dropped back into high school, all the while keeping my job at the service station at night, got a decent place to live, graduated high school and went on to junior college. Yes I made a ton of mistakes along the way and lived a life of sin and almost destroyed myself many times, until I finally gave my heart to Jesus Christ 21 years ago and entered the ministry. Today I am ordained as an elder minister in the largest African American denomination in the USA even though I am White; I travel all over the world speaking to huge crowds, winning untold thousands upon thousands to Christ; hold record numbers of salvations and church attendance numbers in Australia and New Zealand; am married to a beautiful woman of God; have written a book; recorded music; have appeared on many well known TV shows all over the world; headlined newspapers; was a professional wrestling champion; and I am in negotiations for a movie on my life.

Just think, if I had of listened to the step-grandfather I would probably be dead or in prison today. I often find that people who discourage others are usually trying to take the focus off of their own failures. That was true in the step-grandfather’s case. He was a overweight drunk, an abusive husband to my grandmother, and an habitual gambler who gambled away my grandmother’s home and their life savings, forcing her to live in poverty leaving her nothing but debt when he died. He was a failure at life and he vented his anger at his own self upon me. He died the same year I graduated and when I graduated from high school he never told me congratulations and he refused to come to my ceremony. Remember people that do not succeed in life also do not want you to succeed.

I made up my mind a long time ago to believe God and not man. Man will tell you that you are a failure, and God will tell you that you can do all things through Christ who gives you strength. (Philippians 4:13)

Whose report do you believe; God’s or man’s?

When God told Noah to build an ark he listened to God and got to work building it. There were those who tried to discourage Noah and made fun of him until the flood came as God had promised. They were left outside to drown in their own discouragement while Noah and his family survived because he listened to God and not the discouragers.

Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. (Psalm 1:1)

In spite of God proving time and time again that He is for us there are still those today that choose to listen to the negative ninnies, and then get discouraged. Maybe someone has been telling you things like “You will never amount to anything,” “You can’t be healed,” “Healing was for those back in Jesus’ day but not for today,” “You are going to go broke,” “You can’t do any better than that person so you better get married to them, “ “You will never be a businessman so you better get used to digging ditches,” “You are going to lose,” and “”Don’t listen to those faith people as they are all of the Devil.”

Losers do not want to see you succeed. They will discourage you. Winners do want to see you succeed so they will encourage you.

Your biggest supporter that is cheering you on is God! The word says “If God be for you then who can be against you?” (Romans 8:32)

Stop listening to those negative ninnies! Kick those discouraging dipsticks to the curb! PUT YOUR TRUST IN GOD, not them for He will never fail you nor will He ever leave you! (Hebrews 13:5)

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"Success means having the heart, the valour, and the will to become the person God meant for you to be!" Johnny Lee Clary

Memories Of My Friend Billy Joe Daugherty

By Rev. Johnny Lee Clary






Pastor Billy Joe Daugherty
April 23rd, 1952-Nov. 22nd, 2009

Today is a very sad day for me. As I write this on Nov. 22nd, 2009, I just received news an hour ago that after a month long battle with cancer, Pastor Billy Joe Daugherty, one of the world’s best known pastors, passed away early this morning and moved up to his eternal home in heaven. He was 57 years old. He was my pastor for many years before I moved away from Tulsa in 2007. He was not only my pastor, but my mentor and my personal friend. He pastured one of the largest churches in the nation, Victory Christian Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

This man was my friend. No , I can’t claim that I was one of his closest friends in the world, or that I was a part of his inner circle of best friends, but I did share a friendship on a personal level with him that was very valuable and taught me a lot about living a life for God. I would like to share some of those memories I have of him with you if you will let me.

Billy Joe Daugherty believed in me when others did not. I was the former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, and I quit the Klan and came to his church in 1990. I dedicated my life to God and learned under his ministry. Still there were those who believed that God would never save a former KKK member and certainly would not use him in the ministry. There were a few people who wanted me to leave but Billy Joe wanted me to stay. He had me preach for him several times and even lost a few church members who resented him continuing to support me and have me preach from his pulpit. He never abandoned me as a friend, even when I was hard to love. We once had a disagreement back in 1998, and I didn’t speak to him for a few months. He called me up on the phone and I was sort of rude to him, but he said, “Johnny I am thinking of you, I love you, miss you and you are always welcome back at the church. If I have done anything wrong to you Johnny, please forgive me.” With arrogance, I thanked him for calling and didn’t ask him for forgiveness.

A few weeks later, a girl who was a close friend of mine who attended Billy Joe’s church, committed suicide. I was devastated. I was thinking about walking away from the ministry about the time this happened. I was driving my car with tears in my eyes, when suddenly I felt the need to talk to Billy Joe. As I pulled up in front of his house, he walked out onto the front porch in his socks, and in spite of all I had said and did to him, he held his arms out to hug me as I walked up onto his porch. We sat and talked for the longest time, and he explained things to me that I don’t believe anyone else could have at that point in my life. I asked forgiveness for the way I had treated him. He forgave me and still believed in me. I asked him if I could come back to the church and he said “Of course you can!” Not only did I come back but he put me in the ministerial fellowship of International Charismatic Bible Ministries on which he was on the board. He made a beautiful video in 2006 about choosing to forgive in which featured himself, me and the late Rev. Wade Watts that you can see on youtube.com.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtyJId_620c


Pastor Billy Joe loved me and taught me the ways of God, and not the ways of man. There are some people who are on this earth today who can give a special prayer of thanks to God for Billy Joe taking the time to help me grow in God, because if it were not for what Billy Joe invested in me, some of them would have had broken jaws, their butts kicked, their houses burned down and maybe even worse because of what they did to me. I wasn’t exactly a nice little wimp when I was head of the KKK. I had been used to being a leader and in gang life all my life, in addition to being a pro wrestling champion, so it would take me awhile to renew my mind after I got saved and some church people did not take this into consideration. They kept pushing me on more than one occasion simply because either they were jealous of my ministry or just plain didn’t like me. Billy Joe was always there and saw it for himself and Billy Joe always told me, “Johnny Lee, see to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.” (Hebrews 12:15)

He never got bitter at anyone. I used to needle at him sometimes just to see how far I could push his buttons but he never lost his cool. At the church one night, I showed up with a whoopee cushion, a hand buzzer and some other things I purchased at a novelty joke shop. I went to shake his hand with that hand buzzer and he jumped about 4 feet in the air, but he didn’t get mad. A rather large lady did though when I placed the whoopee cushion in her seat and she told Billy Joe I needed to act my age and not my shoe size! Ha Ha! I got Pastor Sharon with the hand buzzer too and Billy Joe came looking for me outside the entrance door and then told me to behave myself! He didn’t get mad and said it with a half smile but I didn’t bring the joke stuff back to church anymore after that either. He was a pastor to me in making sure I was taught the word of God and since I have a worldwide public ministry also, he took the time to make sure that I represented Jesus in the right way. After all, I was a member of his church and whatever I did reflected on him. He made sure I was grounded in God’s word before releasing me into the ministry. He ordained me. He supported me. He was mentor to me and even when busy he took the time to call if I needed him or to go to lunch with me. He chastised me when I needed it and encouraged me when I needed it. There was that time that my ex-girlfriend Cynthia and I showed up at the church picnic with non-alcoholic beer and I teased Billy Joe asking him if he would like a beer! He gave me this look and then we told him it was non-alcoholic. He made the point to me that we knew that, and now he knew that, but does everyone else know that one of the ministers was drinking non-alcoholic beer? He explained about abstaining from the appearance of evil and causing people to be a stumbling block. ( 1 Thess. 5:22; Romans 14:13) I put it away after that.

He used to do imitations of Flipper the Dolphin when he preached years ago, and he could do that like no other. I bought him a Flipper ink pen that made the Flipper sound when you pressed the button. He got the biggest kick out of that. Then there was the time it snowed during a Wednesday night service and I ran outside after church and made snowballs and was pelting people and people were inside the door and told Pastor Billy Joe I was on the loose with snowballs. He came outside and made some of his own and threw them back at me. Being a former football player he had better aim than I did! I lost that battle!

Billy Joe used to take me with him to go do crusades in the low-income projects of North Tulsa, which is about 99% African American. I walked around knocking on doors with him to invite people to the tent revival. I never will forget what happened. He knocked on a door where you could smell the marijuana smoke and three big black dudes who looked like gang members came to the door and Billy Joe said “Praise the Lord guys! Look who I have here! I want you to meet the former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan!” My heart almost dropped. I was not packing a gun and the first thought in my mind was “I’m dead!” Then one of the Black guys threw open the door, and reached out towards me and smiled and said, “Hey I saw you on TV! Let me shake your hand!” Two of the men came to the tent and listened to my testimony and gave their lives to Jesus when Billy Joe gave the alter call. He always was led of the Holy Spirit and seemed to know exactly what he was doing.

The first time Billy Joe invited me to preach for him at Victory to do a Sunday night service, I asked him if I could invite Rev. Wade Watts to come speak with me. He said that was a great idea! There was a group of people who attended Victory that hated me and they began to pray against the meeting and for God to open Billy Joe’s eyes as to what kind of evil person I was and to cancel the meeting. Of course they were praying this behind Pastor Billy Joe’s back. They didn’t dare say it to him. The meeting was advertised all over town and there was a big flashing marquee in front of the ORU Mabee Center that had our names on it. The KKK in Tulsa got wind of the meeting and sprung into action. Two twin brothers, Dennis and Daniel Mahon who were once my right hand guys when I was in the Klan, snuck into ORU Mabee Center and being experienced electricians they burned out the wiring system causing $300,000.00 worth of damages. There were no lights in the building when we pulled up in front and fire trucks were everywhere. The people who were praying against the meeting were dancing and jumping up and down slapping each other the “high five” thanking God for answering their prayers and canceling the meeting. $300,000.00 damage and these so-called “Christians” were celebrating! They celebrated too soon though, as Pastor Billy Joe drove up and told us to move everything across the street to the gymnasium and we would have the meeting there. Being a denominational pastor, Rev. Watts was not raised in the word of faith circles. He was not familiar with positive confessions all the time so when Pastor Billy Joe walked in the room, Rev. Watts stood to his feet, and said, “Pastor Billy Joe, I’ve been to Alabama and the Devil was there. I’ve been to Mississippi and the Devil was there. I’ve been to Georgia and the Devil was there. Now I’ve come here to Oral Roberts University, and the Devil is here.” Pastor Billy Joe immediately looked at Rev. Watts and said, “No Sir Rev. Watts! The Devil is not here! We ran the Devil out of here! We are giving no ground to the Devil! This place belongs to Jesus and we give Him glory!” Rev. Watts said “Oh OK.” I took Pastor Billy Joe aside and said, “Billy Joe, Rev. Watts doesn’t understand the Word of Faith,” and Billy Joe said, “I had to say something to him otherwise he would have went out there on that stage and told everyone that and would have alienated half that crowd.” Billy Joe was 100% right. Rev. Watts gave to no credit to the Devil that night when he spoke. We had 2000 in attendance and 200 people got saved at the altar call! To God Be The Glory like Billy Joe said!

As for the wiring job the Mahon’s did to ORU’s Mabee Center, the insurance cut a check for a million dollars and ORU rewired the entire Mabee Center and was able to purchase some additional items that were needed too! Dennis Mahon drove over to Billy Joe’s house one night and claimed to have put White Supremacist racist literature all over Billy Joe’s house and under the windshield wipers of their family vehicles. He also bragged that he cut one of Billy Joe’s tires on his car. I told Mahon he needed to get his life right with Christ and repent and he refused. Billy Joe told me to stay away from Mahon because he was crazy and to have nothing else to do with him. I followed Billy Joe’s advice and never spoke to Mahon again. In the spring of 2009, the FBI surrounded the home of both Dennis and Daniel Mahon in an early morning dawn raid and arrested them both as they were charged with mailing a letter bomb to a Black man in Arizona which exploded, crippling his hand. If he had turned the box the opposite way he would have had his chest penetrated with shrapnel and most likely would have died. They both are being held without bail and face spending the rest of their lives in prison. As Billy Joe always preached what the word says, “Touch not my anointed and do my prophets no harm. (1 Chronicles 16:22) The Mahon brothers reaped the seeds they had sown. (Galatians 6:7)

Billy Joe Daugherty amazed me on more than one occasion. Once a guy hit him at the altar call and as Billy Joe turned around to walk away he hit him again, and then security grabbed him. Billy Joe was bleeding and just kept right on preaching. Billy Joe didn’t want to press charges but the police did. He went to see the man in jail and the man refused to repent and even threatened him again. Later the man wrote Billy Joe a letter apologizing .

Another time Billy Joe amazed me was when Rev. Watts and myself were invited back to preach in 1996 and I took the service myself because Rev. Watts didn’t make it. He had been battling diabetes and gangrene had set in and so the day before we were scheduled to preach, his leg was amputated. On Monday morning I went over to Billy Joe’s house and picked him up in my car and we drove to McAlester, Oklahoma to visit Rev. Watts in the hospital. He was lying in his bed cracking jokes as Billy Joe and I walked into the room. Billy Joe told me on the way home that Rev. Watts had a special spirit about him, to be able to joke after having his leg cut off. He told me he personally could not do that and be in that good of mood and I told him I couldn’t either. As we were visiting with Rev. Watts, the Sheriff walked in. Rev. Watts went to introduce the Sheriff and he recognized Pastor Billy Joe and then turned to me and said, “You don’t remember me do you?” I replied, “I think so. You look familiar.” The Sheriff said, “I was on the Highway Patrol (State Police) back years ago when you were down here with the Klan harassing Rev. Watts. I came up and started telling you and your gang off for passing out those KKK pamphlets.” “Oh yes,” I replied. “You were the cop that after I told you we were in our legal rights to distribute the pamphlets, you said if you even found one on the ground you were going to hold me responsible and arrest me for littering. I think the fine was up to a thousand dollars, so we all packed up our sheets and left.” The Sheriff replied, “Very good memory! Yep..that was me!” The following Sunday Billy Joe was preaching. His services are carried on national TV. He told the story about how he and I went down to visit Rev. Watts and met the Sheriff. Billy Joe was telling how he stood back and listened to the conversation and said suddenly he realized that all those stories Rev. Watts and I had been telling were true! I said to him after the service, “Billy Joe you have known me now for a few years and you mean to tell me that you weren’t sure if my stories were true or not?” Billy Joe laughed and said, “Well Johnny Lee if I ever had a doubt in my mind, I don’t now! I’m a believer!” Ha Ha!

Pastor Billy Joe was really tired that morning and Pastor Sharon had made me promise that I would not keep him talking all the way down to McAlester as it was a long drive. She told me that if he wanted to sleep to let him. As soon as Billy Joe got in my car he kicked off his shoes and reclined his seat and went to sleep. I am one of these drivers that just can’t seem to drive without music, but I had to that day because I didn’t want to keep him awake. I had lots of questions to ask him and due to the fact that he pastored one of the largest churches in the USA, he didn’t always have a whole lot of time available so I wanted to use this time for talk. I had promised Pastor Sharon though, that I would not keep him awake talking so I felt it was more important to keep my word to her, so I didn’t disturb him on the way down but he was wide awake returning so I got most of my questions answered on the way home.

We discussed a lot of things that day. I was a little egocentric at that time in my life when it came to dating, as I had four different girls that liked me from the church, all at the same time. I liked all 4 of them. Three were on Pastor Sharon’s praise and worship team and one was in the church band. They were all fighting over who was going to get to be my girlfriend. I was such a player in those days. I remember telling Billy Joe that I found it hard being attractive and the object of desire for so many girls. Pastor Billy Joe shook his head and explained to me in so many words that I needed to come down off my high horse and realize that it is the anointing the girls were attracted to and not because I was some sort of modern day Elvis or something along those lines. He also explained to me of why I needed to set boundaries when it came to dating and conduct myself as a man of God. I didn’t end up with any of those girls after that.

Billy Joe also showed me how humble he was that day. I told him how I had been to Higher Dimensions church and how Pastor Carlton Pearson was driving a gold-plated black Cadillac and the Gospel singer Carman was driving a gold-plated Alexis. I asked him if I should upgrade my 86 Lincoln Towncar to keep up with ministry trends, and questioned him of why he only drove a 1991 Chevrolet Lumina when his church was 10 times larger than Pearson’s. Billy Joe told me that if that is what those guys felt they needed to do that was up to them but his car was worth a million dollars to him. I asked for him to explain and he did. He told me that if he needed to raise money to feed the poor or anything to get the gospel around the world, the people who give are not going to be hindered in their giving because of what he drives. He told me I had nothing to be ashamed about driving an older car. He said, “Your car is old but it is nice and well kept and people will not be hesitant to help you get the gospel out if they don’t see you driving a gold plated Cadillac.” He taught me a valuable lesson that day. Our job is to represent God and gain God’s approval, not man’s.

He practiced what he preached in not only what he drove, but also lived in a regular modest house, and he and Sharon shopped at Wal-Mart all the time. When I was invited to Carlton Pearson’s wedding, it was by invitation only. Many well-known ministers from around the world were there. I was given a seat on one of the last two rows in the back. I saw some very well known preachers come in and ask the ushers to seat them in the front. Then Billy Joe and Sharon walked in. One of the ushers immediately recognized them and asked if they wanted to be taken to the front, and Billy Joe said, “No, we will just sit here in the back next to Johnny Lee.”

You see, my friend Billy Joe Daugherty was not about being recognized and being given superstar status. To him there was but ONE Superstar and His name is Jesus.


Well these were just some stories of memories I will always have of my friend, Billy Joe Daugherty. I will say now what I have said to other friends and loved ones that have gone on before. This isn’t good-bye but so long for now. I will see you again, Billy Joe!

There is an old Jewish saying that goes something like "He who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure." Well I can truly say I found a treasure in Billy Joe Daugherty, because his friendship was a treasure, and the things I learned from him, I shall keep in my heart, soul, mind, and walk with God forever. This is just my story of a great man God allowed me to know in life, who was perhaps one of the greatest of God’s Generals that ever lived. You can ask anyone who knew him and they would agree. That’s my story and tribute to my friend, Billy Joe Daugherty.

Johnny Lee Clary



Rev. Johnny Lee Clary
(918) 919-0105 USA
0411213232 Australia
P.O. Box 972
Miami, Ok. 74355
Official Website:
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GET YOUR HEALING FROM THE DOCTOR

By Rev. Johnny Lee Clary

The Bible is very clear about Jesus healing today. Too many negative nincompoops are out there teaching that healing was for Jesus’ day but not for today. They even go so far as to say that sickness in our bodies was put there by God for punishment of some sort. Nothing can be further from the truth. There is a variety of reasons people get sick, but we don’t need to go into all of them except to say that a lot, not all, but a lot of sickness is the result of the choices that we make, like lack of exercise, improper foods, use of drugs and alcohol, etc. Then there are some that just seem to develop illnesses and they seem to have done everything in their power to prevent sickness. Some illnesses are better left to be explained by doctors and some illnesses there just seems to be no explanation for. What I do know is that Jesus is still in the healing business today just like He was when He walked the earth in bodily form.

If you serve Jesus then you serve a healing Jesus. Mathew 4:23 says that Jesus went about Galilee teaching, preaching and healing all the sickness and disease that the people had. Now if you believe the Bible to be truth, then you must also believe Hebrews 13:8 that Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. That means He still heals today. If you say He does not then you do not believe the Bible and certainly do not follow the Jesus of the Bible. You therefore are an unbeliever. If you say Jesus does not heal today then you are calling Jesus a liar. Well, Jesus is no liar. The liars are the ones who say Jesus doesn’t heal today.

The life of Jesus showed nothing but compassion and love. Since He laid down His life by going to the cross for mankind, why in the world would someone dare think He doesn’t love people enough to heal them? Greater love has no man than He who lay down His life for a friend. (John 15:13)

Now let me make it perfectly clear that no man can heal anyone. It takes Jesus to do the healing. Now I can just hear the agnostics and heathens saying right now that doctors heal people. My answer to that is the doctors would not have the knowledge or the medicines to heal if it were not for the knowledge that God gave them to develop those medicines and do those operations. End of argument.

Now I have witnessed many people going to faith healers and even waiting in long lines for hours because they wanted healing from a sickness. Now some people would say that they are not looking to the man for healing, but if that were so then why do they wait in those long lines instead of just going to their local church or gathering up some fellow believers for the prayer for the healing? You see, some get all caught up in the hype of the big name minister that has a reputation for faith healings in his meetings that they forget that Jesus is the one doing the healing and not the faith healer. I like what Benny Hinn once said when Larry King asked him on TV how many people he had healed. Hinn replied, “Not one Larry. Jesus is the healer not me.” Because of that attitude I believe that is why God has blessed Hinn so much. We need to develop those same attitudes.

Matthew 14:35-36: “The men there recognized Jesus and sent messengers all around the countryside. The people brought him everyone who was sick. They begged him to let them touch just the edge of his clothes. Everyone who touched his clothes was healed.” This scripture should always remind us to reach out to Jesus and look to Him for the healing.

Psalm 30:2 “O Lord my God, I called to you for help and you healed me.” When we pray to Him and believe Him for the answer that is when we see the results. We have to do our part too, like not only prayer and belief in Jesus to do the healing but also we have eat healthy and make the right decisions and listen to our doctors.

In early 2008 I had a physical done and was told I had about 6 years left to live. I was told I was borderline diabetic, had high blood pressure, gout, overweight, and super high triglycerides. The doctor said with those conditions it was nearly impossible to live past six years. However, he also told me that if I would make the necessary adjustments and exercise, change my eating habits and lose weight I could live several more years. I made some changes. Now in 2009, I had all the tests redone and they all came out with no diabetes, uric acid levels OK, blood pressure under control, and triglycerides good and everything else just fine. Yes I made some adjustments but I didn’t lose all that much weight, only a little. The main thing was prayer. Prayer got results. It still is getting results too!

James 5:16 “Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.” You can pray for yourself to be healed and you can also pray for others who are sick as James told us to.

He’s the same today! Jesus still heals today. Therefore do not listen to those ninnies that say Jesus does not heal and start listening to what the Word of God says, and then you can have your healing.

Get your healing from the Doctor!

Doctor Jesus that is!

©www.johnnyleeclary.com

Rev. Johnny Lee Clary is one of the leading advocates for racial unity in the United States and has appeared on countless television and radio shows such as The Billy Graham Radio show, Fox News, Morris Cerullo, Oprah, Morton Downey Jr., Rolanda Watts, Geraldo, Sally Jesse Raphael, Jerry Springer, Ricki Lake, Queen Latifah, Montel Williams, Phil Donahue, A&E Investigative Reports, ABC World News Tonight, Bertrice Berry, The Today Show, A Current Affair, The 700 Club, and Kenneth Copeland's TV show. He has also been a regular guest on TBN's Praise The Lord show and has been featured in America's top newspapers and magazines, including a seven page feature story in Charisma magazine in April 1999, Moody Magazine, Guidepost Magazine (Sept. 1998), Kenneth Copeland's Believer's Voice of Victory magazine, as well as appearances on TV programs in Australia, England, Holland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, and Wales.

FEAR DOES NOT EXIST IN GOD'S WRESTLING RING

By Rev. Johnny Lee Clary




No matter where I travel, whether it be in the USA or another nation, I am always running into people who are confused about the calling of God upon their life. Either they are working hard to fulfill the calling of God upon their lives or they are just sitting idly by doing nothing to help advance the Kingdom.

I can’t count how many people I have met in my 20 years in the ministry that tell me they once felt they were called of God to preach, or go on the mission field, or pastor a church or sing or play music. So what’s the problem? Most people do not take that step towards accomplishing what God has called them to do because of fear. If they have fear then they are not trusting God to lead, order and direct their steps like the word says. (Proverbs 3:5)

Sometimes they listen to the wrong people who discourage them from following what they feel God has called them to do. What they do not take into consideration is that most of the people who say you can’t walk on water have never even gotten out of the boat. If I had listened to all of the idiots including my own family members who told me I would never be a preacher and I was stupid for thinking that I could be, then hundreds of thousands of souls would not be saved today. I had one relative tell me I would never amount to anything and today she is way out in left field with a mind all burned out from drugs. Another relative has battled multiple marriages and alcoholism and yet another relative is a left wing backslidden Christian who is a chronic gambler. All of them told me I would never amount to anything. Glad I didn’t listen to them!

God has not given us the spirit of fear. If God didn’t give it to us then fear is of Satan. Satan is the creator of fear and he created it because he does not want you doing God’s will. Satan is not big enough or powerful enough to stop God but he can stop Christians from doing God’s will if he can put enough fear into them where they become cowards and make the choice to stop themselves. I had my fill of fear when I was young. I saw it all. My father committed suicide in front of me. My sister let her boyfriend beat the hell out of me all the time. I had to live in East L.A., in gang ridden territory. I was chased and beaten by gangs. I joined the KKK and looked to the White brotherhood for protection.

I lived a life of hate and violence before coming to the Lord. I have faced down rival gangs, been shot at, been in knife fights, gang brawls, barroom brawls, survived contract hits, faced down literally thousands of counter-demonstrators at White supremacist marches, and survived attacks from the Black Panthers, Black Muslims, Communists, KKK, Nazis, gangs, and just about every type of enemy you can think of.

After I became a Christian, if I was naive enough to think that the attacks would stop, then I was living in fantasyland. I was attacked a lot. This time though, the attacks came from so-called ‘Christians’ who again told me I would never be a preacher, I was an idiot, since I was once a Klansman I would always be a Klansman because God does not forgive people who used to be KKK members, and I have had these people attack me for twenty years and they have never let up. However, the key to it all is that I have never let those jerks get the best of me. I have no fear of them and never will. Why in the world would I fear a bunch of busybodies nerds with big mouths when I faced and defeated some of the meanest gang members and hate-mongers from Bad Street USA? Besides I fear no man. I used to fight in bars and in the gang wars. Oh yes I got beat a few times, but the person who beat me almost always regretted it. If I couldn’t take someone with my hands I would come back with a baseball bat. If I couldn’t take them with a baseball bat, I would come back with an army. If I couldn’t take them with an army then I would come back with fire and I am not talking about the Holy Ghost fire because I wasn’t saved back then. I will leave that to your imagination. People hated making my list. I am talking about the list of people who lived to regret underestimating the old me before I was born again. The people who have attacked me since I was saved, have got a lot to be thankful for especially that I am truly saved, redeemed and walking in the ways of the Lord. Otherwise…well we will leave that to the imagination too! They just better hope I never backslide!

So what is my secret? It’s no secret..it is a recipe. It is found in the word of God. Trust in the Lord with all of your heart and lean not unto your own understanding! (Prov. 3:5-6) I don’t care who opposes me! They are not bigger than God who is bigger than all my problems, bigger than all my fears; God is bigger than any mountain that I can or cannot see.

Fear is not some big giant wrestler who is bigger than the Holy Ghost which resides in you. You can face fear anytime day or night because God is with you! God plus one is the majority! The 14 year old little shepherd boy David was not in fear of Goliath because he knew he had God on his side. He defeated the giant and later became king of Israel! If he would have let fear control him, we never would have heard of him, and he certainly would never have been king.

You need to tell old Satan that the Holy Ghost power makes you the boss and he and his demons can get lost!

You need to remember that God is on your side, He is your tag team partner, and he is looking out for you! If God has given you a calling, go for it baby! Stop letting fear get in your way! When people try to discourage you tell them to go play on the freeway! Be a God-pleaser not a man-pleaser!

If God calls you He equips you. When God gives the vision He gives the provision!

You don’t want to be branded a coward for the rest of your life do you? You can’t be recognized if you don’t get in the fight. I wrestled a 6-man tag team match one night and me and one of my tag team partners carried most of the match while the other guy left the ring and went to the bathroom! He didn’t return until the last minute of the match and me and my regular partner won when he gave a clothesline to one guy, I hit the other with a chair and dropped the third guy with a DDT face first on the mat. The referee raised all three of our hands in victory and we turned to our partner who was M.I.A. (Missing In Action) and said “Where were you pal? “ He tried to give some excuse and said, “Hey I had you all’s backs man!” We told him where he could stuff it and that he had no part in our victory!

God is the head promoter. He has called you to step into the wrestling ring. If you take a powder and go back to the dressing room like a girlie man, then don’t expect to share in any glory. You may make it to heaven but you won’t get any rewards or recognition, and you certainly won’t wear a crown like those who did what God told them to and didn’t let fear get in the way!

FEAR DOES NOT EXIST IN GOD’S WRESTLING RING!

2 Timothy 1:7, “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”

If you have a sound mind, go get in the ring!

©www.johnnyleeclary.com

Rev. Johnny Lee Clary is one of the leading advocates for racial unity in the United States and has appeared on countless television and radio shows such as The Billy Graham Radio show, Fox News, Morris Cerullo, Oprah, Morton Downey Jr., Rolanda Watts, Geraldo, Sally Jesse Raphael, Jerry Springer, Ricki Lake, Queen Latifah, Montel Williams, Phil Donahue, A&E Investigative Reports, ABC World News Tonight, Bertrice Berry, The Today Show, A Current Affair, The 700 Club, and Kenneth Copeland's TV show. He has also been a regular guest on TBN's Praise The Lord show and has been featured in America's top newspapers and magazines, including a seven page feature story in Charisma magazine in April 1999, Moody Magazine, Guidepost Magazine (Sept. 1998), Kenneth Copeland's Believer's Voice of Victory magazine, as well as appearances on TV programs in Australia, England, Holland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, and Wales.

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL POLICE in Jailing Drug Pushers

Ottawa County Ministerial Alliance
P.O. Box 1456
Miami, Ok. 74355

We of the Ottawa Country Ministerial Alliance would like to thank our law enforcement and the OBN (Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics) for Operation Wardog in which over 70 arrest warrants were issued in Miami and the surrounding areas. As law abiding citizens, we have a right to live in a community where the streets are safe for our children to play on, without fear of drug pushers selling drugs, drug addicts breaking into our homes, and meth labs being operated in our neighborhoods.


In this day and age when children need heroes to look up to, Hollywood has been glorifying drug pushers through movies and TV shows which send the wrong message to young people that they can get rich quick and live lavish lifestyles by dealing drugs. They fail to point out that by making the wrong choices in life, they not only destroy their own futures but those of friends and loved ones that are affected by their choice to sell, manufacture or use drugs as well.


As District Attorney Eddie Wyant stated most of the drug dealers were young in their late teens and early twenties and it is sad to see that they made the wrong choices to start their lives off with a prison and felony record that will remain with them for the rest of their lives. This will affect their job opportunities and standings in communities as well. As ministers of the gospel in the Ottawa County Ministerial Alliance we pray for those who have made these choices that they learn from the mistakes and the price they will now have to pay as the consequences of their actions. We also pray for all families in our community that they become aware of the drug problems in our area and allow Operation Wardog as well as future drug sting operations to serve as a lesson to young people that crime does not pay.


These brave men and women of law enforcement who put their lives on the line on a daily basis are the real heroes for our children to look up to and admire. Let us all keep our law enforcement officers in our prayers for their safety and may God bless them for their outstanding work that they do to serve and protect us in our daily lives to make our area drug free!


Rev. Johnny Lee Clary
Ottawa County Ministerial Alliance
Miami, Oklahoma